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l.'ulveraliy of or(. .ntry - - - t mm DAILY EDITION Vol VIII., No. IflX aiuirni rum, xxsnatm oocrnr, o&boom, Monday, april so, ii. wiioi: htmiier asiT. mm i CiUCM TEST 8EF08E TO litNHAI I AM ABOUT KIMMEL Hl'NH TRYING TO HTIUKK YI'ltKH ' HUM UK A II AM) (IT OVY OIL DCIUiY WITHDRAWAL HEAVY ATTACK OK IK FLANDERS TrrnuMiiloUa llomlMnliiieitt Herald Kaemy Attempt to AdvanceUrn Ikh Reoaptor Post Loadon, Apr. 29. Th Qruians began today what ra to lit I general aaaanlt on the British hill positions on th Krmmnl front southwt of Yprs, opening new phase of the Flanders drive. Thli In apparently th crucial twit of th allies holding power In thia area. Th enemy baa evidently been to Ini to drlva In behind Ypre and breakup the orderly withdrawal of the British from their pualtluns In tba Ypres salient, which I hey have been evacuating. London. A Dr. II. Herman Infan try la attacking tbla morning' be - iwaan Meteren and Vonrmexeele. outhweit of Yprea. Tba Germana openad a heavy bom bardment with high explosive ahella and gaa between Materen and Voor-i moaelle before attacking British troopa around Yprea aaveral tlmea after dawn thla morning aent up "8. O. 8." algnals for artillery sup lort, according to a Neuter' corre spondent. The heavy bombardments, tre- 'mandous In their Intensity, point to a certainty of lha German's attempt to advance. The enemy attack yes terday near txicre, west of Kent me!, waa repulsed. The British last night recaptured a post near Featubert north of fllvenrhy taken by the Ger mana laM week. With the llrltlah Army, Apr. 29. The Fourth German army this morning heavily attacked tha allied front In Flanders. I'rlaoners rap tured have acfmltted that It la Oer many'a Intention to capture Yprea. Severe fighting Is reported In both the French and British araaa. The attack extenda over a front of about! 13 miles. The Belgian front hast also been attacked. fohdon, Apr. 29. -Intenae bom- mrrameni is progressing rrnm ia- Ttansee southward from Vlly lo lna. ! With the American Army In France, Apr. 29. Tha American troops have taken up positions on the French battlefront facing the enemy on a line barring tha Ger mana from Paris and Amiens. They hare been there for several days un der the high French command. ' Paris, Apr. 29. German attacks on Hangard Wood before Amiens have been checked by the French. IJO SUCCESSOR YET E Jefferson City, Mo., Apr. 29. Judge W. W. Graves has declined the appointment to succeed United States Sonntor Stone tendered him by Governor Gardiner, that he believes that He states his greater duty Iny where he now Is as chief Justice of the district court. E A l TO THICK LOSKS CHAIN HACKS DOWN BANK One n Itniken anil Mini llruUra Ara OaJy Injuries Saatalaed At tcr 90-foot Vail Mr. and Mr. Bert Maaala and two children of Merlin, had a narrow eapa from death yaaterday when the motor truck In which they wara rid ing loat a drlva chain and backed down a bill and want ovar a 20-foot bank. It waa with- great luck that Mr. Maaala escaped with a broken lag and brulaea, and Mrs. Maaala with only a few tiriilaea. The chil dren were not even acratched. Mr. Maaala and family were trav eling along the Oallre rreek road 10 mile weat of thla city. Tba had Juat daecended the Taylor creek hill and ware In front of Hal Maaala'a place when the lattar called to hla brother to turn In and drive up the hill to the home. When part way up thla hill the drlva chain flaw off of one of the drlva geara and left tha tight truck without power. It Im mediately began to roll back down tha hill, acroaa the road and plung ed down a 10-foot embankment on the other aide. The truck over-turned hut threw Ita paaaengera clear of the1 wreckage. The accident happen ed at about S o'clock In the after- !B0OB Dr. 1. 8. Smith waa called aad af ter examining the Injuries found Mr. Maaala'a right lag waa broken below tha ,knee, and the other Injurlea A,ir y'w,n wrMk nd ,M n,nnr ,n wnlcn 11 "PPenea. I ur. Bin ii n aiaiea inai u waa a mir I acle that all went .through It and I came out with the comparatively ' alight Injurlea sustained. ! Mr. Maaale owna the truck, which ne l"r" cerry.ng me man ana 'Mm on h, ,n ,h"1 !""n r th" coun,y' DAK Kit DKMOCHATS KNDOKMK IIOKNinitOOK FOR COMMITTKK linker. Ore., Apr. 38.9 (8peclul to the' Courier) At a meeting of inn nemocraiic county arnirai cum. mlttee of Baker county, a resolution ' endorsing the candidacy of Will H. Hornlbrook, of Albany, for democra tic national committeeman waa un animously adopted.. 8lmllar action has heretofore been taken by the democratic organisations In Unn, Benton. Lane, Marlon, Polk and Cooa countlea, Oscar Wllklns, former sugar fore man of the tTtah- Idaho 8ugar fac tory, was seriously Injured at 2:10 thla afternoon when he was atruck In the hack by a boom which was being tiaed In londlng steel onto flat cars. Mr. Wllklns' back waa broken. I j ..ill. Tviimiin, wiiu linn uitcii rluuk as checking clerk during the dis mantling of the sugar factory, was standing on the corner of a flat car this afternoon. He was 'not notic ing what wa going on around him Just at that minute and the boom was lowered over him to pick un a piece of steel,' The heavy steel ba struck him In the back, breaking the spinal "olumn and Inflicting oth er serious Injuries, the v serlousneaa of which cannot be determined as yet. He wns taken to the Good Samarl taln hospital by Paul Klrker and an avimlnatlnn ' urn marie hv TW i I.oughrldge. Mr. Wllklns Is about KO years old and Is living here Ith his wife and , three children. BRITISH SHIP TORPEDOED BY uraw I'AMMKNGKHM, MOHTIY AM KIUCAN WAN WOltKKIW. AK ALL 8AVKD SHIP EXPLODES, SINKS QUICKLY Orrgim and Washington Men Are Oa Hoard Attack Hammed With Ship la Ouavoy aad at NUtht London, Apr. 29. The Drltiab ateamahlp Orlaaa waa torpedoed Sun day morning and aunk within three minutes whan her bollttra blew tip. Deatroyera picked up life boata from tba Taaael within half an hour. There were about ISO paaaengera aboard, mostly war workera going to France. The Y. M. C. A. men were under Arthur B. Hungerford. The Americana conducted them- aelvaa admirably, according to the ship's officer. Tha vessel waa In a large convoy. It waa moonlight when struck, but the submarine waa not aaen. The boilers blew up with in three minutes after the torpedo struck, extinguishing all lights. -- Among the war workera which traveled on the Orlaaa were Kdward Kathea, of Belllngham, Wash., and Donald Kajrtor, of 8t. Helena, Ore. Kaylo waa paator of the Congrega tional church at St. Helena, en route to France to do war work. London, Apr. 19. Fifty-seven American army Y.' M. C. A. workers arrived here last night. The ship they sailed on was torpedoed yes terday morning and aank In IS mln utea. All the passenger and all but three of the crew were saved. 1 Washington, Apr. 29. The wa department today formally announc ed that American troops have partic ipated In the battle eaat of Amiens 'They have acquitted themselves 'well. ' 1 The war department urges the ne jcesalty of providing more troops. It say that very large quotaa will be required In the Immediate future to fill the gapa which will occur In the lines. Two More Oaaoalty Llta Washington, Apr. 29. Two caau alty Hats published today contained a total of ISO names. The killed and missing numbered 22. Ten of ficers ara named. . HEY ASKS SMS FGRHIM BECAfXELLED San Francisco, Apr. 29. Thomas Mooney haa telegraphed President Wilson that he haa made every ef fort to stop the proposed . general atrlkes planned on his behalf for May 1. . TKANHFOHTH IN COIXIHION ItKITHN TO ATIjANTIC POKT Washington. Apr. 29 Two Amer ican transports which collided at sea several days ago returned safely to an Atlantic port. Neither was seriously damaged. CLOSER TRADE RELATIONS IN S. A. IS URGED KEV. M. T. WIRE, SPEAKING KK rOKE CI1AMHKH OF UM- MKRCsi FOIST OCT NIC El) War will bring iloaer Itetarimia lle twee (totiatrte of North and no tA Heaalaohflre, He Said Rev. Melville T. Wire, speaking before the Monday noon luncheon assembly at th Chamber of Com merce today, brought out aom In teresting obaervatlons on "Our Con tinental Neighbors After the War," delving Into a dlscuaalon of tbls country's relatione with 8outh Am erica alter peace la declared. He etated that he desired to use a tela cop Instead of a mtcroacope to look at the national and International problema and Interesta rather than at local problems. He called attention to the amas- Ing expansion of Industry In the last four years. He said that Oer- maas did not Invade Belgium -aa strategic move only, but for hr wealth In minerals. Germany la fighting for more land, which means of course, that Germany ngnta po tentially for what grows on the top of It and the mineral wealth under neath the aurface. Germany fights for IndUHtrial supremacy through eteallo the wealth of raw mater ial from her neighbors. Germany also looked beyond Franc and Bel glum to 8outh America where the most unprecedented wealth of raw material In the world II almost un touched. "W do not appreciate South Am erica." aald Rev. Wire. "In the vaat- ness of her resources. The North American business man baa neglect ed this Held of trade, which other nations, notably Germany, have long been aware of. Germany could not go In officially on account of the Monroe Doctrine, but ahe had es tablished before the war Important trade relations with countries of South America. "In the plateau region of Brartl half a million Germana have settled on the very finest land, ready at the atrateglc time to 'hand It over" to Germany. So Brasll, In declaring war on Germany, haa problem at home to solve first. "We do not realise the alxe of South America which has over 7,000,000 square miles of territory against 8,000.000 in north America, More than that, lh greatest breadth of North America 1 In th Arctic elrcl. while the greatest breadth of South America is In the equatorial sone across Brasll. ' Braxll Is larscr than the United Statea and Germany combined. Brasll Is rich In pro ducts of th tropica and temperate sone. Argentina's marvelous growth I due to cattle Industries, refrlger tor ship being able to carry frosen beef to Europe. Cattle In the old daya worth from $10 to (20 a head now bring from I7 lo iiuu. ( "Canada In the last 12 years nas Increased her plowed area 75 per cent, while Argentina has Increased her by 278 per cent. "The acuteness of the ship short age ia th only thing that keeps n at present from utilising to Its ful lest extent the amazing products of Argentina In cattle and wheat. "We must wake up to the benefits of the South American trade. We can trade our manufactured artl-los for raw ' products. American cor porations are already at work In the (Continued on Pag Four) CM! nil VALUE GERMANY AGAIN Af III NH MAKE IlKMANIW FOH I N FAIR PRISON: R EXCHANGE Demand That Good German Prtaoav ers lie Eirttaiifed for Crippled lluMiaa Soldier Washington, Apr. 29. Germany haa demanded of Russia an exchange of prisoner and threaten to take Petrograd unlaa Russia agrees to their terms In advance, th stat de partment haa learned. The terme call for th Immediate release of all German prisoners tn good health, whfi thoa 01 ahaJl re main In Russia under th car of neutral physicians. The Oermana will release only Russian prisoners who are 111 or In- paclated. Bill IN RUSSIA MAY BE FALSE ALARM Petrograd, Apr. 29. Moacow dla- patchea dated Tuesday give no Indi cation of th reported revolution on behalf of th former Grand Duke Alexis Nlkolalevlch. reported yes terday. BRITISH CASUALTIES LAST M 18.360 London. Apr. 29. British casual - tie reported last week totalled 18.- 269. The losses were divided as fol- lOWB. - vim. aa nuiau ui uicu wi wvuuua. vimio - 408 ; men 2.461. Wounded or missing, 2.071: men 12,229. officers Deaplte the heavy fighting for more than a month past the British canuiltlea reported are only now be ginning to approach the higher fig urea for week after week last year, when the British were on the offen sive on the western front. The In crease recently has been on the average of 60 per 'cent each week over the preceding week. Last week the aggregate was 12,368 and the week previous 8,129. MAN IS GIVEN COM. According to a dispatch from Washington, James H. McFarland. of this city, has successfully com pleted the third officers training clans at Camp Meade, Maryland, and Is due for a commission as . aecond lieutenant In the infantry. Lieutenant McFarland la a son of Mr. and Mrs. D. McFarland, of North Tenth street. He was graduated from Granta Pass high school In 1914 and entered the University of Washington at SeatUe In the fall or that year. Last spring he enlisted In the ambulance section of the IT. 8. army and was a aergeant tn that branch when he waa appointed to attend the officers training school at Camp Meade. , ENGLAND'S PENSIONS Iondon, Apr. 29.' The first he count of the ministry of pensions for the year ending March, 1917, shows an expenditure of 1,179,270 of which 612, S63 was for pensions and gratuities to, warrant officers and men of the army and 320,002 paid to widowa and children of those grades. DR. M LEAN IS SPEAKER HERE SUNDAY IMORil. GIVES INTERESTING TAJA ON WAR- AND TELIA OF B'XA TION8 WITH MEXICO SO, COUNTRY HELD LIELICE Her. Ikmaer Give laterestiaf Ties of Trip Through Large Traiatnc Oasaa) At Palo Alto Grant Pass was yesterday favored Ith a visit from a former pastor and founder of Bethany church. Dr. Robert McLean, assistant secretary of the Presbyterian board of horn mission, who haa charge) of th Spantah work of th board In Cali fornia, Colorado, Texas. Arlxona and New Mexico. Dr. McLean still own . property here and still looks upon Granta Pass aa his horn. Hi address at the Bethany Pre. byterlan church waa a patriotic ef fort and waa received with th clos est attention bythe large audience. Dr. McLean Is no pacifist. "Christ waan'L" be aald. "Christ was ever . ready to take up the battl for th wak and oppressed and to fight oa th side of righteousness. " He point ed to Germany a the most colossal ' sinner of all agea, and paid ft aplaav did tribute to the American soldier who are fighting with the allies to put down thla curse upon the world. He took occasion to go Into a ipnaae or tne subject wnich n nas " Preaching fronVth Atlantic to the Pacific a subject with which ,he haa been familiar- for many rears that of Mexico. v Some observation on this subject are made tn an editorial comment tn this Issue, and ought to awaken the Interest of the people tn this aid of th question. He pointed ont thx danger that thla country face through Mexico and suggested a remedy for removing that danger. Dr. McLean came to Grants Pasa from the Klamath Lake country la 1887 and on December 11 of that year organized the First Presbyter Ian church In thla city. The organ isation took place In th old court house with th following Ave peo ple present: W. S. Barrie and mother, Mrs. Barrle, Mrs. J. K. Plgney, Mrs. Gil ' Allan and Mrs. Rich. I Shortly after the organization of J the church Mr. and Mrs. 'Dodge and Mr. and. Mrs. Kinney, members of th Congregational church la .Ver mont before coming to Oregon, as sociated themselves with the ' new membership and aided In the work. The next year a church was hollt, Mr. Dodge ststed that sine tho church which they belonged to, la Vermont waa called Bethany that It would please them to have this en so named. Out of respect for thsa; (Continued on Pag Four) SEATTLE SHiP LOST New York, Apr. 29. Tha Ameri can steamship "Westerly," one of the first new ships built by tbe Em ergency Fleet Corporation, waa sunk In a collision oft tbe French coast yesterday. All on board were saved. The Westerly was launched at the Seattle shipyards of the Ames Ship building Corporation In February of this year. She was launched as a war brigade tor the Cunaxd line, but was commandeered by the shipping board. , . . , , ,